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The group issues included government spending, government debt or taxes. yet another listing criteria appeared as education of the public by advocacy or lobbying to quote, make merck a better place to live, unquote. finally the criterion consisted of any statements in the case file criticizing how the country is being run. the reason for these criteria, were, inappropriate, is that they did not focus on tax-exempt laws and treasury regulations. for example, 501(c)(3) organizations may not engage in political campaign intervention. 501(c)(4) organizations can, but it must not be their primary a...

Began selecting tea party or other organizations for review in early 2010. from may of 2010 through may of 2012, a team of irs specialists in cincinnati, ohio referred to as the determinations unit, selected 298 cases for additional scrutiny. according to our findings the first time that executives from washington, d.c. became aware of the use of these criteria was june, 2011 with some executives not becoming aware of the criteria until april or may of 2012. the irs's inappropriate criteria remained in effect for approximately 18 months. after learning of the inappropriate criteria, the direct...

Pigeons that go from the white house chief counsel's office that couldn't land on the window in almost a month? this is not only reprehensible, but inexcusable behavior. president obama is supposed to be the smartest person in the room. he's needed to run the company. but june 2011, lowest learner, the issue is retroactive to december 2008, to the tax exempt status in one month for the barack h. foundation. doug shonen -- irs commissioner at the time. and then steve miller, and then the white house chief counsel in april of this year. this is ridiculous if you want to believe that the presiden...

Applications the irs selected for this additional scrutiny all experienced substantial delays. 63% were ultimately either just withdrawn by the applicant or remained open with no resolution. in some cases after more than three years and two election cycles. applications not targeted by the irs typically take only four to nine months to complete, compare that with three years. such delays the inspector general concludes may have caused, quote: potential donors to be reluctant to donate to those conservative groups and led to, quote: some organizations withdrawing their applications all together...

He visited asu in 2009 and the university would not give him an honorary degree because he was so new. >> president crow and the board of regents will soon learn about being audited by the irs. >> after that of course came the birth of the tea party in 2010. some of the conservative groups suspected they were treated differently by the irs but the irs commissioner appointed by president george w. bush and retired in november assured congress that was not the case. >> an organization there's absolutely no targeting. this is the kind of back-and-forth that happens when people apply for 501 c-4 s...